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LEIBNIZ'S COMBINATORIAL IDEA AND THE LITERARY EXPERIENCE BY A. SUMAROKOV
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This paper focuses on A Lover's Divination Book (1774) by A. Sumarokov, examining its combinatorial nature and its implicit connections with Leibniz's ars combinatoria. The Russian poet-classicist denied Leibniz's philosophical principles but Sumarokov demonstrated combinatorial theory in his literary practice and confirmed the universality of ars combinatoria. Sumarokov's combinatorial method is based on two levels: formal and substantive. The first one includes mathematic combinations which build the composition of Sumarokov's book, the number of chapters and predictions. The second contains permutations, combinations and variations of love situations, concepts, and characters. Moreover, Sumarokov's approach to the word in this book, in “love monadology” revealed his proximity to Baroque thinking.
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